Fixing Everything Wrong With My Cannondale Synapse! Full Rebuild Service! Wheel Truing! ASMR

Brilliant video and goes to show you dont need to spend £1000s on a brand new bike. This era are when some brilliant bikes came out

Another satisfying video! One small comment about detailing the paint, though - detailing a bike is the same concept as detailing a car. When you have a rough texture on the paint, you'll want to use a claybar/synthetic clay mitt before polishing because those help safely lift off the contaminants from the paint before you polish. That will help your paint last a lot longer, since you're just grinding that dust/dirt into the paint if you polish it without removing the contaminants first. Anyways, keep up the great videos!

Love this approach to a bike purchase. Rather than heading out and spending thousands. Picking a gret 2nd hand bike and putting in some work to make it perfect again. Well done and excited to see how great the bike is out in the world. Lee your attention to detail with those end cps as an example is 2nd to none! Great content and keep it going, always buy bikes 2nd hand and enjoy the process and accountability for ensuring everything is right by me for me🎉

Shame the previous owner didn't ride this bike. Synapses ride very nice. Beautiful paint job. I love when frame has light colours on it. Makes it optically look much lighter and "happier."

I was waiting for this video.. I have the same exact bike with all the components.. Wow!!.. Thank you for this.. brought a big smile on my face.. Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪

Evening Team Bikespeeds......looks like a brand new bike ! Wow! Chapeau to this, your own bike on your channel. Fine value for money and proves you don't need to spend a lot of money to appreciate a quality bike 👍👏. Enjoy the fine weather on the new steed ! 🍻

Outstanding catch, these generation cannondales are peak road bikes, pure workhorse, not one gaudy bit on them

i personally also rides a synapse. Alloy synapse from around 2010. Got it second handed for 700 dollars which in retrospect seems a little bit too much. But it has been great, upgraded almost every part of it and I love it very much❤

The quality of your workmanship is incredible 👍🇮🇪

Lee and Simon nice to see it coming to life, smart buying choice both in terms of a used bike and its condition. Minimal tweaks to put it back to new. Did same recently with a SuperX for a non mechanical friend. Appreciate all the work that goes into these vids 👍………..keep us up to date as the baby grows up ! Cheers

Basically a new bike for a fraction of the cost ! Nice job as always guys 👍👍

Lovely job and the paint work did pop out. You’re a very good bike mechanic and it’s always a pleasure to watch you at work 👍

I love Cannondales, having raced on a CAAD3 and CAAD4 equipped with Campag Chorus in the 1990s. Very fast bikes those 🙂

1:25 BRILLIANT!

in my opinion you should tighten the ahead cap on top of the fork before you tighten the stembolts (the ones clamping the fork). reason being: the ahead cap compresses the stem down to the fork to get the play out of the headset. if you tighten the stembolts before the cap, the stem is to tight to be pushed down by the ahead cap.

Nice find. Plenty of good bikes stored away waiting to receive this kind of love. Thanks for the videos! 🚲

I have the 2012 model with exactly the same paintwork! Upgraded all the components to ultegra & absolutely love it.

Just got a 2015-ish Bianchi Via Nirone. Al frame, carbon forks, external cable runs and rim brakes 👍. Same thing - looked barely ridden. Was a mix of Tiagra, FSA and Riparto Corse components. Stripped it down and rebuilt as 1x11 105/GRX with Ritchie bars, stem & seatpost. I’ll never buy an overpriced new bike.

The SAVE seatpost provides a ton of added comfort over the C2 seatpost. A very worthwhile addition. Love my Synapse.

I recently cleaned my road rear derailleur and was amazed at how much better it shifted. Didnt appear that dirty visually.